hi,
I currently have one desktop-computer with 3 monitors: (with gentoo of course, all monitors on one card (sapphire HD 6450) ) and one Laptop T420s. Both current setups work, but I have "configured" my monitors only with an xrandr --blablabla line in .xinitrc because I just managed to configure the files in xorg.conf.d. Now I want to control both machines with my T420s so that I can use only the laptop keyboard/trackpoint for both machines (the idea came when I've read about the client - server difference in the X-window-system).
Therefore I can't go round xorg.conf.d anymore. Now I'm trying to set up xorg.conf.d only for my laptop as an exercise and I'm failing, google, gentoo-wiki, arch-wiki only talk about the old xorg.conf file and I don't find anything that document what is necessary and what not. After the try and error approach I've run Xorg -configure which created a good xorg.conf file that I've split into xorg.conf.d/ files and it doesn't work.

no matter what I did, I always get: no screen found, and problem to parse config files..._________________"I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language!"

Last edited by LoTeK on Sat Feb 02, 2013 5:53 pm; edited 2 times in total

nope...!!
I should sleep more... thanks.._________________"I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language!"

I just recognized that only my exercise to configure the xorg.conf.d file for my laptop was successful.
So now comes the real thing.
First is it possible / good idea to install the xorg-server only on my laptop and to use only the laptop keyboard with the trackpoint. Then when I'm away I use only my laptop and at home I ssh into my desktop and start applications from the laptop that are display on either my laptop screen or on one of my monitors?

So I have to configure on xorg.conf.d/* on my laptop and add the three monitors from the desktop, does this work? because the monitors aren't connected to the laptop.

Moreover I want that every monitor is one tag of dwm.

And is it correct that "Device" in xorg.conf is the graphic card, "Monitor" is on of the physical monitors and "screen" is in a sense a virtual monitor?_________________"I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language!"

One step further. Now one of the three monitors is a separate screen in dwm (although I can't move the mouse to it, which is not that bad), but the other two screens show the same resolution and are not separated.

When I change the Monitor Section from "Monitor1" for example to "Rotate left" it's ignored...and it's like that two monitors are "connected" in the sense that if I disable one than the other is also disabled..

EDIT: When I enter with this setup I can run xrandr and then it works... strange..._________________"I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language!"